I have an 486 DX4 100 comp. with 16 MB and some harddrives in it. I would like to make it a backup station in my Network. So I'd like to install SuSE 8.1 on it. But I have a problem compiling a kernel for it. When compiling a kernel for the boot disk what must be in it?? Does anyone have a .config file available so I can just put the processor type on 486 and GO?? It would be a great help.

Don't bother, all the packages within 8.1 are built for the Pentium architecture. Not to mention the fact that you have way too small an amount of RAM for the installation. If you had 32M and room for a sizeable swap partition, you could probably manage to install 8.0, by pre-creating the swap partition using Tom's Root Boot or similar, I did on a bunch of early Pentiums with 32M and 48M, they now form the backbone of my home LAN. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.1) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org